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Division of Fishes

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Carl Hansen
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    Rich Vari
    Department Chair, Vertebrate Zoology
    Curator, Fishes

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  • E-mail: varir[at]si.edu

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Education

Ph.D. 1976, City University of New York
B.S. 1971, New York University

Research Interests

Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of South America, African, and South Asian freshwater fishes, in particular characiforms and siluriforms.

Selected Publications

Vari, R.P., and A.S. Harold. 2001. Phylogenetic Study of the Neotropical Fish Genera Creagrutus Günther and Piabina Reinhardt (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with a Revision of the Cis-Andean Species. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 613:1-239.

Castro, R.M.C., R.P. Vari, F. Vieira, and C. Oliveira. 2004. The genus Henochilus (Characiformes: Characidae); a Redescription of the Species and Phylogenetic Analyses. Copeia 2004(3):496-506.

Castro, R.M.C. and R.P. Vari. The South American Characiform Family Prochilodontidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): A Phylogenetic and Revisionary Study. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 622:v + 1-189.

Ferraris, C.J., Jr., R.P. Vari, and S.J. Raredon. 2005. Catfishes of the Genus Auchenipterichthys (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes. Auchenipteridae): A Revisionary Study. Neotropical Ichthyology, 3(1):89-106.

Vari, R.P., Ferraris, C.J., Jr., and M.C.C. de Pinna. 2005. Neotropical Catfishes of the Subfamily Cetopsinae (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Cetopsidae); A Revisionary Study. Neotropical Ichthyology, 3(2):127-238.

Zanata, A.M. and R.P. Vari. 2005. The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes); A Phylogenetic Analysis of a Trans-Atlantic Clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 145(1):1-144.

Castro, R. M.C. L Casatti, H. F. Santos, R.P. Vari, A.L.A. Melo, L.S.F. Martins, T.X. Abreu, R.C. Benine, F.Z. Gibran, A.C. Ribeiro, F.A. Bockmann, M. Carvalho, G.Z.P. Pelição, K.M. Ferreira, R. Stopiglia, and A. Akama. 2005. Structure and Composition of the Stream Ichthyofauna of Four Tributary Rivers of the Upper Rio Paraná Basin, Brazil. Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters 16(3):193-214.

R.P. Vari, and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. 2006. The catfish genus Tetranematichthys (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae). Copeia 2006(2):168-180.

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